Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM AJ,L OVER INDIANA. THREE SAVED BY MOTHER Woman Drags Husband and Two Children From Their Burning Home But Her Baby Perishes. Logansport, Aug. 39.—Fire destroyed the log cabin occupied by William Bowyer, in Walton, ten miles south of Logansport, and a fifteen-months-old baby was burned to death. Bowyer, Mrs. Bowyer and two children were badly burned and Bowyer’s burns may prove fatal. The fire started while Mrs. Bowyer was milking. The father and children were sleeping, and part of the burning roof fell on them just as the mother returned. Mrs. Bowyer dashed into the burning structure and dragged out the two oldest children. Their father had tried to get out, but had fallen unconscious and she went back and hauled him out. She was unable to reach the baby, and it was burned to death.